Sentence examples for troop decrease from inspiring English sources

But others said that in the complex political and military transitional period between the American troop increase and a likely American troop decrease, any number of criminal, terrorist or personal motivations could have been factors in the attack.

Canadian and Polish forces may follow suit in the coming years while many other Alliance contributors are discussing their own exit strategies, which might inadvertently increase the difficulty of the planned American troop decrease.

To go to Afghanistan: Another fourteen hundred Marine combat forces, as soon as mid-January, to accelerate military gains there before July, when the Obama Administration promised that troop decreases would begin.

The commander, Lt. Gen. Gary North, described a future approach that would rely on jet fighters and bombers to help ensure the safety of American troops who remain behind to train Iraqis as the number of allied ground combat troops decreased.

As a result, the U.S. employs at a minimum one contractor to support every soldier deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq (that number increases dramatically when U.S. troop numbers decrease).

"If you oppose the war, dislike President Bush, are a Democrat, would like to increase troops, would like to decrease troops etc... you may find casualties unacceptable without having any knowledge of the actual number". The way casualties are framed can also influence how we think of them.

American military commanders said that the number of attacks on American troops was decreasing and that the cease-fire established a week ago finally seemed to be holding firm.

The number of American troops participating decreased by 7,500 this year, but the overall scale of the drills remained the same, South Korean defense officials said.

Casualties among coalition forces have sharply dropped this year, as Afghan security forces have taken over most of the fighting and the number of foreign troops has decreased.

Nearly half said the nation should decrease troop levels in Afghanistan.

Forty-one percent of respondents said they expected that troop levels would decrease if Democrats won control, while 40percentt said the party would seek to remove all troops.